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St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
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There is nothing more marvellous in
the world of to-day than the change in the
position and prospects of women as
compared with half century ago. So
quietly and insensibly has the revolution
taken place, so purely has it been the work
OF natural and evolutionary causes, that
few as yet realize its radical character, and
of those who do, the majority refer it to
little efforts of their own, which are only
minute part of the great movement
which has swept over the entire world
from the furthest shores of the Nile and
Bosphorus to the line of the setting sun
in our own great Western territories.
Without supplying any echo to the
often absurd and extravagant misstate-
ments in regard to the successes of
women, one may, by a careful review of
the ground they occupy and the place
in the background from which they
have emerged, find deep cause for thank
fulness. What they have done, as yet, is
not much to talk about except in the
way of encouragement. What they have
gained is what everything animate and
inanimate is eternally striving for-op-
portunity. This is the great thing that
women have to be thankful for to-day
that they no longer sit with their hands
folded; that they are enrolled in the
recognized bands of the worlds workers;
that they can become a part of any
branch of the great army, without being
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

individual is exercised to exhaustion
in one way it cannot be used at
the same time in any other. This
is scientific fact that women
are bound to recognize, for some
of them are even now called upon to de-
eide which and whom they will serve,
the interests of the home or interests
of agitators and sensation-mongers
who create the noise and glare of a
semi-public life. I do not say public
life, for if woman has vocation, if she
possesses qualities which may be use
fnlly exercised over wider circle and
larger interests than her own world con-
tains, she not only has the right, she is
bound to follow the lead and employ
herself for the greater good of the
greater number. What she is to be care
full of is, that she is not an echo, but
true Voice.
There is not the same necessity to-day
for every woman to be housewife and
mother that existed generations ago.
Then the earth needed populating and
developing; the home had to be created
and rooted as fixed principle in the
mind, the intellectual consciousness of
the race. ALI that has been accomplished,
and, on the whole, women have reason to
be proud of their work. The man of to-
day and the home of to-day, Judging
from the best specimens of both-and we
must always judge of class by the best
and ripened product-are very nearly as
good as need to be, and may be trusted
to main ain a certain amount of integ-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

still needing these, did not like to waste
ball on an animal unable to move, and
thought of getting down to dispatch him
with my knife.
Stop" said the mahout, when he
learned my intention; that is quite un-
necessary. will tell the elephant to kill
him"
The mahout accordingly communicated
his instructions to the elephant, who evil
IDENTIFY did not relish them. The more
the mahout urged him to advance on the
boar the more the latter showed his
angry tusks, and the more the elephant
backed away from him
Suddenly, as the result OF repeated
goading, the latter seemed to make up
his great mind. He wheeled sharply
round, backed upon the boar, got him
between his hind legs, and fairly ground
him up-I heard all his bones cracking.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
HE HAD BOTH.
An Incident Showing the Matter-of-fact
English People.

An Incident Showing the Matter-of-fact
English People.
The inhabitants of the North of Eng
land are a matter-of-fact people. In q
village in one of the dales lived kind
hearted but somewhat hot-headed woman,
who entertained the minister when he
came to preach there.
On the occasion of the first visit of one
minister, wishing to know whether he
preferred tea or coffee for breakfast, she
went to the foot of the stairs and called
out the name of her guest. There was
no answer.
After waiting while she called again,
and was answered with, what do you
want ?'' in anything but gentle tone of
voice.
az want to know whether you'll have
tea or coffee for your breakfast"
ssPll have either or both," was the odd
and not over-courteous answer.
you've got out on the wrong side of
the bed this morning." said the irritated
dame to herself; 'but I'll fit up yer
order. my man p So saying she went to
the cupboard, took thence teapot, and,
putting into it equal quantities of tea
and coffee, made strong decoction Tor
the preacher.
Presently he appeared for breakfast,
and realized that he had strangely
favored beverage before him 80. paus-
ing, he asked: Whats this, missis r
aIt's both, sir; and you shall either
drinA that or do without. Ezcs0nge.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
SWEET SLEEP.
The Great Protest of Tired Nature Against
Too Much Work,

The baby sleeps the greater part of his
time, because he does not know that
there is anything better to do. The old
man mods away the closing years of his
life because experience has taught him
that there is nothing in this world that is
anywhere near as well worth doing as
sleeping. 1t is only in the fever and
folly of youth, and the less respectable
avarice OF middle age, that men are will
ing to rise early and sit up late, and
eat the bread of sorrow thereby.
Sleep is the protest Of nature against
the work of organization it is the pres
sure of the environment on the atom; it
is the manifestation of the eternal tend
ency to disintegration and homogeneous
ness.
Thus it follows that the sic ping man
has for the nonce forsaken his waatike
attitude of resistance to circusa,....nces J,
and aggressiveness. He 1bao % Reminr tor
back into the universe; hi, chester repeating
of the limitations of timGity, hitched their
laws of gravitycond. muse square and took
merely that he m WI, E, the next morning
,,-t+h astonished citizens of Bro
.''' 1'o ooo seat of justice transformed
where at evs arsenal. Clerks, with huge re
are no conditrtheir belts, were busy with the
Now, to have armed men were keeping
sound of an unrlI eefnttside When the county
to inward strife with ap petnr 1n9la q hnar
STA, as the case may be, e. of the votes cast a,
warfare with PACK oft Their business would
who are rivals in thee courthouse until this
existence in the busineed. There were not
niably dsagreeable exPptf fie{ OF men who
baby contrasts in general ia: IN n arsu-
delights of his dreamy paradise W were
the harshness of life where the NIL Nn1lh
bottle is always out of the way when ii
is wanted, and pins pursue contrary -
policy and are in the way where not u
wanted, and he protests with cry.
Whereas, the business man at once thinks
of the note due next week, and philo-
sophically relieves his mind by growing
at his wife
During sleep the soul flies away from
its prison, and nature repairs it, and
it, and purities it for reoc-
cupation But no regilding, or rich
hangings, or cotton nesting can make the
bird forget its flight in the sky or fail to
be ready at the door when the hour az
rives to try its wings again.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
Fighting Death.

A triumph of antiseptic surgery. which
was probably unforeseen by Sir j. Lister, is
that in a, recent affair of honor the urlnci-
pals, who meant business" ran each other
completely through the body. Great there
fore was the amazement of their friends to
see both the heroes of the fray walking about
a few days afterward as if nothing had hap
pened. This fortunate result is attributed t,
the fact that the surgeon who was in attend
ance on the ground had taken the precau
ton to dip the swords in strong solution OF
carbolic acid before they were used. This
humane idea might possibly be still further
improved upon, and the combatant> might
be compelled to fight in suits af antiseptic
gauze and under cloud Of carbolic spray
Exchange
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

o, there was young Salmon, and what do
you think?
Why, she had nothing better than water to
drink.
1t was water at morning and water at night;
1t was water in hearing and water in sight;
30 no wonder she cried in her horrible plight,
20, riggity Jink! 0, rightly Jink!
0, deary, I'm weary of water to drink!'
So her tail gave a flop as she swan to the top
And her troubles in bubbles did splutter and
pop;
30, it's water for breakfast, for supper and
lunch,
And it's nothing but water my grinders can
crunchv
So she cried, as this essence of nothing
she'd MUNICH,
10 riggty Jink! o, riggity Jink
I'm weary Of water for victuals and drink"
20, fnny, you ninny, fie finny for shame"
For that was this elegant, scaly backs name;
"Pray tell me the reason" said mamma, said
she,
"Why your system with water don't seem to
agree?'
But fnny just gggled, and answered, "Tee
hep
20, riggity Jink! o, rightly Jink!
I'm weary of water for victuals and drink -
Then she thought to herself, what wonder
full prank
Will it be if jump for a while on the bank.
There I'm certain III find all the goodies /
lack,
And when get dry can surely jump back.
So she said, as her lips gave gluttonous
smack,
20, riggity Jink o, riggity Jink!
Twill have something other than water, |
think"
60 she leaped to the shore with wonderful
bound
And what do you think that this silly fish
found?
Why, nothing but gravel and pebbles and air,
And that living on land was another affair.
So she cried with a gasp, in her choking
despair,
20. rightly Jink! O. riggity Jink!
o, it's water I'd have could get to the
brink!''
Then musty old maxim grew fearfully
clear,
That it seldom works well to depart from
your sphere;
For she wriggled and twisted and fiuttered
and tried.
Till in spasms of gasping, o, nearly she died,
But at last in the water she tumbled and
cried,
20, riggity Jink! o, riggity Jink!
O, there's nothing much better than water
to drinkp'
Then her mamma cried, "Finny, perhaps
you'll agree,
That you're not quite so smart-pardon
grammar-as me.
Now, what would you doif you'-blubber-
"Omyl
o, dart for the doctor know I shall dier'
And ever in pauses of gasping she'd cry,
20, riggity Jink! 0, riggity Jink!
O, I'm going to die in a minute, / Think
Then Dr. Pike hurried and looked at her
gills,
And he gave her emulsions and lotions and
pills;
But alas and alack she stretched out on her
back,
Then something insidegave horrible crack. |
''Sti-stick to your sphere" she exclaimed |
tothe quack.
Then she died in wink-O, riggity Jink! |
Take the moral-naught's better than water |
to drink.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
True Love il Ever Blind.

A queer story comes from Bordeaux. A
woman took a fancy to a man called the
champion skeleton" who was exhibiting
himself in local fair. The marriage cere-
mony was of the first-class order. The
"atomy'' and his bride came out in gorgeous
apparel and were accompanied to the altar
by all the mountebanks of the fair. The
bride was given away by her quondam pro-
tector, parsonage with princely title and
a plethoric purse.-London Telegraph.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

manRuvre executed
by an e ep h a n t
which shows good
generalship on the
part of that animal.
He tells the story
with evident salts
faction:
| once shot a boar,
paralyzing his hind
quarters withoutkill-
ing him. l had been
having good sport,
and had only two or
three bullets left.
it'll the prospect Of
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

rity against all circumstances. The woman
has also enlarged her idea. The home for
the family was great thing to work out,
but it was not enough; her sympathies
gradually enlarged and extended her
thought, until-well, we do not know
where they will end-but until we have
no more that are homeless. There is now
no quarter of the globe, no class of self
or sOciety-made outcasts that the helping
hand of the woman-the aggregate wo-
man-has not reached. Men can afford
to forgive many little individual weak
nesses and eccentricities in women when
they remember what the whole woman
has done, and done under the heel of the
man, rather than with his help.
What is to be the outcome of the pres
ent enlargement of outlook, means and
resources? That it is impossible to tell,
but we can safely trust it, whatever it
may be, and for it hold men to an equal
responsibility with women-the race de-
velopment depending upon the influence
and action of both The fact that mar
riages are becoming less frequent, less
numerous, that they are postponed to a
later period, is due more to the growth of
luxury among men than the extrava-
gance of women. But it may also be
accounted for by the greater indepen-
dence of women as well as the progress of
the race, for there are mo marriages
or giving in marriage in Heaven"
The truth is, marriage, which in
wolves maternity, simply demands the
subjective because dependent condition
of the woman. AS nature demands less
in one way, it requires more in another;
the woman who is not the mother, who
has not children to rear and care for,
must be made independent and self
reliant, in order that she may take
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
WOMAN'S SUCCESSES.
WHAT THE FAIR SEX HAVE TO BE
THANKFUL FOR.

They Can Come from the background
Without Being Unduly Criticised-Not
Taking Advantage of Opportunities the
Cause of Many Lamentable Failures.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
AN INDIAN Renaissance.

Unwilling Response of an Elephant to an
Objectionable Order.
Mr.. Laurence Oliphant, in his reminis-
cences of sporting in India, describes
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03

care Of herself and
procure her own
livelihood. The wo-
man who tries to
do both usually tries
to do more than
it is possible for one
woman to accom-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-03
And He Gets it.

And He Gets it.
Man wants but little here below, and It lsi
TO be regretted that the same cannot be said
of woman.
They laugh that win.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31

] make some money from the sale OF
postage stamps and always have them on
hand. A great many people, guests at
hotels particularly, write and mail letters
late al night, when they can buy stamps
at none of the ordinary places where .Iey
are kept keep the stamps in large
jar, conspicuously placed on my stand,
and a man who passes my place and
looks at it is obliged to see them.
When they are once relieved Of an incon-
vsnience by obtaining stamps from me,
taey never forget me and often come back
70 me. Very often a man pays me five
cents for one stamp, and nearly always, if
ne wants two, l make the odd cent, but
Iever charge them more than the stamps
cost me. have sold three stamps to q
man and got ten cents; sometimes in his
Joy Of obtaining one or two stamps, il he
needed them badly, q man has bought
other things from me and allowed me to
make handsome profit. l sold Il drum
mer once a stamp for Il letter he wanted
to 60 out on an early morning train, and
he insisted then upon buying 81 worth OF
chewing gum at five cents u stick. on
which l made fifty cents Demo-
crat Interview.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31
Financially sound and suu,re,

1t is pleasure to testify to the financial
and business soundness and squareness of
DIR. Albert. Of Cleveland. He has placed
his medical institute on secure basis, with
an able corps Of physicians and every CON
venience. This enterprise. with his very
large home practice. so occupies the doctors
attention that he does not visit us so often
as many wish. though cases are carefully
looked after by mail. He will be here.
however. Oh Sunday and Monday. Ssptem-
Der and 5. wnen he will be at the Lagoon
da honse. His diaRnostic powers have fire.
quently been described as wonderful. and
il you are troubled with any malady the
nature OF which you do not fully under
stand. DIR. Albert would seem to be of all
others the man best fitted to ascertain the
disease and apply the cure.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31
Eject Of Stage Fright.

A singular instance Of the effect Of
stage fright is furnished in the case Of
young girl from Indiana studying music
In Chicago. When the time came for her
to take part in n competitive performance
she was so overcome with nervousness
that she could not speak, and she was 10
sooner removed to her home than hemor-
rhage from the nose and ears began. A
blood vessel had burst during the mental
strain. Stage fright is something which
the Oldest as well as the best orators never
overcome John B. Cough felt il to the
last. and at times felt it severely. But
what is stage fright? No one who has
ever felt it can explain it 10 his own salts
faction. In most cases it is not fright at
all; there is not the slightest sense of feai
1t is the result Of some magnetic or othe,
influence which goes out from a crowd to
an individual. .-Pittsburg Times.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31
Family LIZ. Of w.sevorkers,

In the cities and in the large manufac-
turing villages great numbers Of laborers
Of both seNes-mOre than half Of them
young women-are gathered together.
Many of them come from the country; the
growth Of the cities at the expense Of the
country consists largely in the removal OF
the young men and women from the farm
10 the cities and the factory towns, where
they find employment in the mills and
the shops. Here they are thrown together
rather rUdely in their work: the boarding
kouscs, where most of them spend their
nights and their Sundays, afford them
none of the restraints Of a home; their
evenings are wont to find them on tho
street and in cheap places Of amusement.
The wages Of these operatives, especially
Of the females, are as general rule very
small In a table showing the wages
paid in forty-fou different mills in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island find that tho
average wages paid to women was So 10
Der week, and TO female children *3. Al. l
avn sure that the average weekly earnings
of females over Is years of age I'm our fac
tories. toX shops, button shops, brass
works and so forth would be less than %.
Out of this those who do not live at home
must pay for board and room, washing
and clothing. What q pinching life this
must be can be easily imagined. In the
same communities where these girls are
employed are numbers Of young men Of
their own social grade and grades little
higher, to whom marriage and the pos
session If a home seem, in the present
state of society, a distant and not always
q desirable prospect.
Such are the conditions-the herding
together Of operatives, male and female,
in places remote from their homes, with
low wages and strong temptations. The
moral fruits Of such an exposure are not
likely TO promote the founding of perma-
nent families: the character and habits
developed in such environment are not
the best outfit for happy wedlock. An
other feature Of the life we are consider
ing is its lack of permanence. Owing to
strikes, failures, changes Of business,
operatives are continually fitting from
one place TO another. Such instability Of
life discourages the forming Of families,
and often results in scattering those that
are formed. l am convinced that it is to
the industrial conditions which I have
now in an adequate wa. outlined that
much of the neglect and deterioration of
family life is due. There are manufac-
turing communities in which these evils
have been largely overcome, through the
intelligence and good will Of the employ
ers Of labor. They may be overcome
eyerywhere.-Work and Wages.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31
Me.m.ri.m a. . Cure for Toper,.

The following story comes from Sois-
sons: 1t is afli-ned that about fortnight
ago a young man was mesmerized by one
of his friends in the presence Of several
persons. After some Of the usual expert
ments the magnetizer said to the patient:
Il forbid you TO drink wine during the
next fortnight. The patient was then
woke up by the magnetizer blowing in his
face, and though he is no longer in his
presence it is affirmed that he cannot
carry glass of wine to his lips. If the
glass is filled with beer, water or any
thing else his arm will obey him and take
it TO his mouth, but il it contains wine his
muscles are paralyzed.-St. James Ga
Zetfe.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31

The number Of poison makers must
have been considerable We came across
..Ouelli dal vcpen." who lived on the I.ago
di Garda; the famous poison brewers, Pc
ter Paul Of Padua: Master John and
Master Michele, Of NiceuZa, and "NostrO
fidel Eilandrno," custodian of the garden
of simples at Padua. The poisons which
these masters made were OF two kinds
slow poisons C''Neneni a tempo'D and
rapid poisons, and the manner Of admin
istering them WAS various. The method
most frequently in use was either poisoned
meat or poisoned drink, and we have seen
proof made of the "Neneuum edible and
Of the "Venenum potable upon two pigs
in the presence Of the Ten. There were
other modes of poisoning, however, though
they We're less commonly adopted. We
find instances Of that favorite Indian re-
ceipt, pounded diamond. Again in the
year 1885. the French ambassador relates
to the college an attempt on the life of the
king of France by means Of poisoned seals,
which had e1lectually killed three slaves
on whom they had first been tried. And
in 1899 Caterina SforZa, mistress Of Forli,
which city Cesare Borgia threatened to
take from her, attempted to poison Alex
ander VI by means of credentials which
her ambassador brought TO his holiness
wrapped in scarlet cloth and placed inside
a hollow cane that they may not kill the
bearers
These are cases Of poisoning by touch.
We hear also of proposals TO poison by
smell; Of little balls 10 be dropped on a
fire, and presently they will kill all who
are in the room. Nothing strikes us as
stranger about these poisons than their in
efficacy. In the year 1914 We find Villain
drino, one Of the most famous masters in
his day. sent for and told that, as the fire
at the palace had destroyed the poison,
cupboard and its receipts, he must furnish
some two or three more, and must send in
the receipts along with his new poisons.
Vilandrino produced a poisoned water;
but when this came to be tried on GER
tain Mustafa, he was none the worse for
it. The Ten ordered second dose; and
after waiting eight days with no more
satisfactory results they conclude in dis
gust that Nilandrino's water is worth
nothing, and send him back u Padua.
Edinburgh Review.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31
GONE TO REST.

Death of Mr.. Newton .. Miller. n Pioneer
Citizen Of This County.
Mr.. Newton S. Miller. . pioneer citizen
Of this county. died At 4 O'Clock Tuesday
evening at his family residence near Enon.
Of paralysis. The deceased was one Of the
most hOnored and respected men Of Clark
county and goes to his reward with the es-
TEEN Of everybody.
Mr.. Miller was born June 80, 1919, and
spent nearly all his life in this county. He
leaves wife and ave adult children to
mourn his loss.
The funeral will occur Thursday at p.
M. the friends to meet at the house and
then repair to the Christian church at EnOn,
where the services will be held.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-31

George Alfred Townsend is a most con-
slant establishment of the great highway.
He gathers matter for his letters easily,
because he seems to know ever, third man
he meets, and he has wonderful knack
Of making each one yield something i'm
portant or interesting, but when one con
siders how much work he turns out the
wonder is that he gets time to gather the
material. He scrapbooks his notes and
must have house full of memoranda.
asked him how on earth he produced SO
much, and his answer was characteristic:
Because l do nothing else but work. -
Julian Ralph's Letter.